Description
Book Synopsis As a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of Poland. Through new questions and engaging untapped sources the leading historians who have contributed to this volume provide original scholarship to steer debates and expand the historiography surrounding Nazi racial and occupation policies, Polish and Jewish responses to them, persecution, police terror, resistance, and complicity.
Trade Review “Poland under German Occupation is one of the most innovative, modern and well thought-out books about the German occupation of Poland during WWII that I have had the possibility to read in the last few years” • Jerzy Kochanowski, Warsaw University
“This is an impressive volume, marked by detailed research and new approaches, [it] provides important new information on the Nazi occupation of Poland and elucidates the context in which the mass murder of the Jews took place. The brutal nature of this occupation emerges clearly as does the way the conflicts it engendered made Polish-Jewish collaboration very difficult to achieve.” • Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
Table of Contents Preface
Maps
Introduction
Jonathan Huener and Andrea Löw
Chapter 1. ‘So That the Future Chronicler Can Make Use Not Only of Official Documents’: How Jews in the Ghettos Documented and Researched the Holocaust in Occupied Poland
Andrea Löw
Chapter 2. Networks of Dependence and Love: Jewish-Gentile Relationships in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Natalia Aleksiun
Chapter 3. Stories of Power: Sexual Contacts Between Occupiers and Locals in German-Occupied Poland
Maren Röger
Chapter 4. Kirchenpolitik as Volkstumspolitik: The Catholic Church in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Jonathan Huener
Chapter 5. Ordinary Organization, Extraordinary State Violence: The Polish ‘Blue’ Police and the Holocaust in Eastern-District Kraków
Tomasz Frydel
Chapter 6. Moral Victories?: Warsaw’s Two Uprisings in the Second World War
Winson Chu
Chapter 7. Polish Debates on the Holocaust from the 1940s to the Present
Dariusz Stola
Conclusion: Contemporary Research on the Holocaust and German Occupation of Poland: Between New Empiricism and Geschichtspolitik
Ingo Loose
Index
